My uncle told me in 2016 that voting third party was just throwing your vote away

He said it straight up at Thanksgiving dinner that year. I was all into Gary Johnson at the time, thought he was making sense. Fast forward to now and I look back at those elections and honestly he was right. My single vote in Pennsylvania didn't change anything and we ended up with a president I liked way less than the main two options. Anyone else get called out by family on something political that they later had to admit was spot on?

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iris_rivera4417d ago

Oh man, my dad gave me that exact same speech in 2016. I was dead set on Jill Stein, thought I was making some kind of statement. He just shook his head and said, "You're helping the guy you hate the most." Fast forward to 2020 and I look back and yeah, he was completely right. It took me like four years to admit it out loud to him though. Felt like I was betraying my own principles or something, but really I was just being stubborn. That conversation still bugs me because he was looking out for me and I just rolled my eyes.

barbara27817d ago

Oh my goodness, that rings such a bell. I think that's just how family works sometimes - they call out the hard truths because they love us and don't want to see us make the same mistakes they did. It's like when my husband kept telling me not to buy that fancy coffee maker until we tested a cheaper one first, and I thought he was being cheap. Six months later I had to admit he was right, it was just common sense dressed up as stubbornness.